plus, day three without water in jackson, mississippi. and the situation is so bad, the hospital does not have air conditioning. but one part of a temporary fix has arrived. welcome to the lead. i m cakasie hunt in for jake tapper. donald trump s legal team is on the clock. they have under four hours to submit their response to a scathing court filing from the department of justice which accused the former president of pushing a, quote, incomplete and inaccurate narrative about the fbi raid at mar-a-lago. the d orc j went on to make an even more damning assertion that it has proof that documents were moved from a storage room at the florida resort and possibly hidden in an effort to obstruct the fbi s investigation. the doj also filing included a signed letter from a trump lawyer swearing no classified documents were left at the former pred s home. that we now know was a lie. given that fbi teams seized more than 100 documents from mar-a-lago during the august search. c
cost of pens and papers and notebooks and all of that that went up. back to school sticker shock as inflation sent the price of school supplies soaring. the impact it is having not only on parents, but also on business owners and teachers. how some people in california are making money by having their front yards ripped out. it is sunday, august 21st, welcome to a new week. we re so grateful you re waking up with us. good morning, amara. good morning, boris. happy sunday. and we begin this morning with the extreme weather threat across the southwest and southern plains. more than 12 million people under flood watches. yeah yesterday s search and rescue crews were out looking for a missing person in utah s zion national park. rangers say hikers were being swept off their feet by flash flooding on the virgin river. rescue teams were out in the mojave county area of arizona after rushing water washed out roads and trapped vehicles across that region. cnn meteorologist
representatives all the time that they thought was appropriate to comply with their legal obligations to return official documents, including potentially classified records. i think it is really important to highlight the fact that one of trump s own lawyers conceded to the washington post yesterday that the warrant, which the lawyer saw, indicated the warrant was seeking information relating to classified information. the president is in significant legal jeopardy if he retained classified information at mar-a-lago and especially if he failed to turn it over to the department and the fbi all these months later. david, since we have you, let s get this out there right now, because people have been asking questions comparing this to the situation, the investigation surrounding hillary clinton s emails. how is this different? we don t have enough factual information yet to compare all the many ways this may be different, john. the clinton investigation stands on its own.
aide said after an abrupt end to his closed door testimony. and the united kingdom generally known to be prim and proper, but this time it seems like it could be a drag-out fight to be the uk s next prime minister. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in the politics lead on capitol hill. members of the january 6th committee are preparing for tomorrow s primetime hearing. the hearing is expected to cover the actions or lack thereof of former president trump during the three-plus hours that rioters were storming the capitol and the president s activities were unknown. but as committee members try to get to the bottom of the past attempt to teal the election, our democracy remains under attack by the same forces. let s start in wisconsin. cnn affiliate wism reports that donald trump called the top lawmaker in the wisconsin state assembly, republican robin voss, and asked him to overturn the 2020 election results. when did that call happen? that call happened las
this water system to survive. this will undoubtedly affect u.s. prices for consumers. translator: i try to stay positive and it helps me to survive. it is thursday, august 18, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where donald trump and his allies are trying to get control of the narrative. and at least one of his many legal challenges. the former president is said to be considering releasing surveillance video of the search at his mar-a-lago residence. some want to include it in campaign style ads to fire up trump s base. others say it could backfire when the public sees the shear volume of material seized. trump has already admitted he did not comply with the fbi s request to turn off the cameras during the search. here is his son eric on fox news. you still have the surveillance tape, is that correct? are you allowed to share that with the country? absolutely, at the right time. while we wait for trump to make up his mind, the federal magis